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by lngnmn 9y ago
> Take two apples, add two more apples, you have four apples. To whom? To other apples? Intelligent observer which is required to relate absolutely unrelated apples together is a most recent innovation. Atomic structures, to the contrary
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by lngnmn 9y ago
> Socrates is a man, 99.999% > Men are mortal, 99% > Socrates is mortal, 98.99901% From where these numbers came from and why?
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Nope. It is a new XML, CORBA, J2EE - the-only-right-thing-to-do kind of shit.
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by lngnmn 9y ago
> There are no problems you can model with logic that can't be modeled by Bayesian logic. "Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal". Please explain to us, speaking a bunch of incoherent nonsense, how Bayesian logic
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by lngnmn 9y ago
> Logical inference is just a special case of more general bayesian inference NO. This is a fucking sectarian crap. Logic of any kind is possible only because the Universe has its laws and structure. It always comes first. Logic is a uni
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by lngnmn 9y ago
No, it is not. Logic of any kind is a step-by-step process of induction, based on a valid premises in each step (just one false premise is enough to refute the whole thing, and it must always be verified) while all the premises must be trac
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by lngnmn 9y ago
OK, but this "inference" is not a valid substitute for a logical inference because it produces a different type of result - probabilistic, not certain. The crucial difference is that statistical inference does not consider any ca
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Why would you expected a dialect of Lisp to become popular in the Packer's and Pointy Haired Bosses Paradise (a ready-made ecosystem for sweatshops and coding factories of easily replaceable coding drones)? A bit more seriously (which
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by lngnmn 9y ago
> jobs for people without much education. There is a small business for that. Nothing much, a food stall or whatever it was in 60s or 70s. Low-tech.
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by lngnmn 9y ago
The gap between genes and intelligence is the same as between individual characters and poetry, or even bits of UTF-8 encoding. But it is fun to watch these "0.40 heritable" meaningless statements. This is the same as to claim tha
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Because vast majority of these creative ideas belongs to category of a naive popular bullshit like "chakras", "tantric sex", "veganism" or a border wall with Mexico?
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by lngnmn 9y ago
To paraphrase Orhan Pamuk - "They don't buy clothes, they buy dreams (about themselves)". This is as old as humanity.
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Bullshit. We are built by evolution to live in this particular physical environment and had no trouble living there for last few millions of years or so. What we are not evolved to do is to live in an overpopulated urban areas, forced to wa
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by lngnmn 9y ago
There are even obvious historical evidences - one should compare the impact on Upanishads and Buddhism (which philosophy has been built upon Upanishadic) with primitive, barbarian cults which are still powerful in some unfortunate countries
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by lngnmn 9y ago
as a species, no less? ;) Education then.
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by lngnmn 9y ago
I like a different analogy. In old times the oracles and shamans danced in masks wielding amulets of power and magical weapons. Modern day shamans dance with datasets and clusters, but the main principle is the same. If my performance produ
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by lngnmn 9y ago
You probably wouldn't believe, but we used to read assembly code in books and magazines and wrote resident programs for MS-DOS, used to load custom bitmap fonts to imitate the Norton Utilities fancy UI and stuff like that. I'm an
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Growth makes nations happy
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by lngnmn 9y ago
According to linguists, there is an inevitable gap between a syntax and semantics, due to the fundamental principle of arbitrariness of phonemes used. To put it simple, any sequence of sounds could be associated with any meaning (given a di
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Just for reminder - the second leak does not match the vault7 leak, which is supposed to be from the very same NSA. There is not a single proof or reason to believe that the second leak was not a fake (while the vault7 leak looks more legit
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by lngnmn 9y ago
The Andrew Ng's course on coursera. Then some Udacity.
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Crappy food produced for sale and quick profit. To paraphrase - Processed Crap Is Killing You.
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by lngnmn 9y ago
No meaningful parts (which encodes proteins and gene regulation) are different, however. Nature does not work that way. Comparison of two genomes as two billions-bases-long strings is meaningless and yields nonsense due to waste and introns
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Just about pirates?
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Look, Ma, it is Haskell.
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Bullshit, bullshit everywhere. Learning is not some abstract mystery, it is a process of "evolving" and maintaining a structure (of neurons or of bits - does not really matter) which reflects some particular aspects of reality (pr
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Well, it seems that having a structure is the most fundamental principle. While in reality structures formed and maintained according to the laws of physics, in CS we have to explicitly define the rules, which is what Abstract Data Types (w
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Closure is more fundamental though. Add a structure (define an ADT) to a closure and you will have an object. The classic example is a closure with message-passing, which was the original concept in Smalltalk.
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by lngnmn 10y ago
Any high-order functions, TCO? Is there an implementation of Everything Is An Expression and Everything Is A First-class Value principles? Type-tagging, which implements Values Has A Type, Not Variables principle, which gives The Num
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by lngnmn 10y ago
Numbers? Real? Neither molecular biology nor the sane part of physics has any of em. Btw, it is heuristic - if there are numbers involved then it is human made. Reality as it is has no such notion. Biology does not count. Numbers require an

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